Flora of North America species comparison

short and tufted or erect, branched from base or near middle.

ascending or erect, branched or unbranched.

cauline, often crowded near base;

stipules well developed;

petiole 1–9 cm;

leaflets 5–9, blades 10–40 × 5–10 mm, adaxial surface glabrous.

cauline;

petiole 2–7 cm;

leaflets 6–9, blades 15–35 × 3–10 mm, adaxial surface densely pubescent to tomentose.

8–12-flowered, 2–11 cm, shorter than or slightly exceeding foliage;

flowers spirally arranged.

5–25 cm;

flowers spirally arranged, sometimes appearing whorled proximally.

0–3.5 cm;

bracts persistent, straight, 2–5 mm.

1–9 cm;

bracts deciduous, 2.5–5 mm.

1–3.5 mm.

2.5–5 mm, becoming recurved.

5–12 mm;

calyx abaxial lobe entire, 5–6 mm, adaxial lobe cleft, 2.5–4 mm;

corolla vivid blue, sometimes paler or white, sometimes bicolored, banner spot white or yellowish, keel glabrous.

8.5–12 mm;

calyx 3–5 mm, lobes ± equal, cleft;

corolla golden yellow or white, lower keel margins short-ciliate near claw.

1.5 cm, constricted between seeds, thinly pilose to coarsely hirsute.

1–2 cm, glabrous or glabrate.

persistent, disclike, sessile.

deciduous, petiolate.

2, wrinkled or ridged.

3–8, resembling bits of granite.